ARNSF – June 18

In this edition of the Arter-Rowland National Security Forum, Army Strategist Col. Nathan K. Finney, will discuss the establishment of the U.S. Army Western Hemisphere Command, the U.S. Army’s newest Theater Army/Army Service Component Command. Meant to address the primary theater detailed in the 2025 National Security Strategy and 2026 National Defense Strategy, this new command is taking a hemispheric defense-in-depth approach to support both the U.S. Northern Command and Southern Command.

Colonel Nathan K. Finney is an Army Strategist currently serving as the director of the Commander’s Initiatives Group at U.S. Army Western Hemisphere Command. He has served from the platoon to combatant command level, including combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, and plans and strategy positions focused on the Indo-Pacific, Europe, Africa, and Central and South America.

Finney was a founding executive board member of the Military Writers Guild and is currently serving as the chairman of the advisory board. He was also a founder of The Strategy Bridge and the Defense Entrepreneurs Forum. He is a managing editor at the British Journal for Military History and serves on the editorial advisory board for the Journal of Military History. Among many other academic endeavors, he is a senior mentor for the Project on International Peace and Security (PIPS) and an affiliate of the Whole of Government Center at the College of William & Mary.

Finney is the co-editor and author of Redefining the Modern Military: The Intersection of Profession and Ethics (USNI Press), the editor and author of On Strategy: A Primer (Army University Press), and author of Orchestrating Power: The American Associational State in the First World War (Cornell University Press). He is currently researching his next book, which is focused on Taiwan in the Cold War.

Finney earned a doctorate in history from Duke University in 2022 while also serving as a Goodpaster Scholar. Previously, he received master’s degrees in public administration from Harvard University and the University of Kansas, and a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from the University of Arizona.

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